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@dang can we improve the title? Starting with "China..." gives IMO an unnecessary political framing to this story. These were researchers at Chinese universiti
by loufe 3y ago
@dang can we improve the title?
Starting with "China..." gives IMO an unnecessary political framing to this story. These were researchers at Chinese universities (almost all the same, Tsinghua), so it should say so. There are some cases where we say "America .." or "Russia.." but usually in the context of a body directly under gov't control such as military or federal policy. We never say "Europe develops a sailboat" or "India develops new diabetes medication", it would be "French startup develops" or "India's Biocon develops". Sure the government may have stronger hand in affairs than in other countries, but there's no reason to invoke a different framing because of a political difference.
"Tsinghua University Researchers Develop Photonic AI Chip" feels more appropriate.
- Beijinger 3y agoWell, with the current chip disputes (no last generation lithography for china, China throws AMD and Intel out from telecommunications) China feels quite appropriate for the headline. I know out of my head that Tsinghua U. is in China, Beijing. But I doubt that many readers know this.
- loufe 3y agoI doubt many readers would know it either, but everyone has to start learning somewhere, however I'm certain almost every visitor would be able to tell it's one of two mandarin-speaking places. Regardless of one's opinions on China, it is becoming more important and wealthy and it cannot hurt to learn the names of important institutions slowly.
- throwaway920102 3y agoYes, Tsinghua is the Harvard of China. It would be weird if Stanford research came up with a breakthrough but the headline merely stated "US". Let's begin to treat Chinese universities as a non-monolith.
- eunos 3y ago*MIT PKU is the Chinese Harvard